The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-10-12

lSSO-Presldent Garfield 555, 544
IeS2-dov. Folger. ................ 842, aga
Republican loss. 3d. $3.50
1ss0-President Hancock ....... 534, 81
1SS2-Gov. Cleveland. ............ 535, 31S
Democratic gain. sO7
That was magnificent bolt! The next
year. 20. 900 Democrats bolted the Demo-
cratic nomination for Secretary of State and
elected the Republican candidate, voting for
him directly. This is clearly shown by the
figures:
S state En-, Engineer. ..441'199 42s,$57
Attorney General. LIB, S39 $4,000 So
Secretary OF State. ..427, 525 446.1O
In this case also there was no question
that the defeated candidate was good man,
it for the position: but the people did not
like the, way in which his nomination was
brought about, and construed it as an insult
to the Catholics.
I'm 1882 20, 900 Republicans of Kansas
bolted an unpopular nomination for Cover
evidently voting directly for him. The fig
ures show it.
1892 Rem Dom CIR
fsnenaat s si7 sss5s
Here also there was no possible question
as to the fitness Of either candidate.
I'm none of these cases was the result &C
ccompllshed by any fusion, or division of Of
befS or eSmpr snd Or BARGAINS It was
refused to vote for a disliked nomination.
Where the people keep to that mind no
ring can hold machine, through It party,
and through it State or city. The notion
thai you must vote for man because he is
the regular nomination is more than false:
1t ls sin against every patriots. impulse and
violation of the entire duty of u voter. 1t
+ the essence e Of representative government
know and can trust. 1t is the essence of ring
rule that You shall elect men whom you know
| and distrust."
On this extraordinary article of the Pic
the radical managers thus conimented:
This language from one of the Oldest and
best papers in the South the defender of the
rights of the people against, fraudulent and
dlshonest ring government, should be needed
by every patriotic citizen of this. common
wealth. and the advice given therein should
be followed by sw eeping from power the head
centre Of the ring which now has complete
control Of the political rights and destinies
OF our our people PIE The city government is only
asn Part Oh OF the he,d lng the ta thereof The
ernor Of this commonwealth, and if he is re-
elected for four years more 1t will take revo-
lutlonary means to break up the ring. His
nomination was secured by the ring and the
expenditure OF money: had the people been
permitted fair expression and representa-
ton, McEnery never would have been nomi-
na 'sfio orno,;,;o,, -
m man fully identified with the interest in the
STATE stat Gentleman Of intelligence, honesty
and the election Of Capt. JohA A. Stevenson,
as Governor of this commonwealth will add
to the prosperity Of the whole people, and
bring about peace and harmony between the
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the greatest, best organized and most power,
full and corrupt political rings ever formed
in any country. This ring is corrupt from
head to tail, and the people should in no tln-
mlstakable terms relegate its head from
official power on the day of election by voting
for honest John A. Stevenson.
Believing that your views are in harmony
with those expressed herein. and those ex-
pressed by the defender of the peoples
rights, the New Orleans PicdDHtne, a com
the liberty, to enclose to you herewith q few
tickets with the name of honest John A.
Stevenson. substituted for Governor in place
OF the ringlnaster, S, ID. McEnery, and re-
specially request that you and your friends
York, in the case Of judge Eolger, by voting
to break up ring government in Louisiana"
Printed in red ink on the bottom of this
Interesting document is the informstion that
it incloses the Republican State ticket, and
ernor, to be pasted over the name of Nc
Emery by those Picdgune Democrats who
might desire to defeat The candidate OF their
party 10y Governor while voting the rest of
the ticket: These circulars, tickets and
pastors. said to have been printed in the Job
Office of the Pic, were circulated by the tens
of thousands throughout the State.
Such was the attitude of the OF gan of the
refolmers in the contest between the regu-
McEnery, and his Republican opponent, John
A. Stevenson, i'll 1884. On Sunday re
showed the record of that journal in the
Congressional election later in, the. same
election subordinate to the defeat of the
regular Democratic candidate for Congress-
and. in day or two, we shall show that the
Ethiopian has not changed his skin nor the
leopard his spots, and that, even in this cans
views similar to those it maintained in 1854.
And now, considering the relation of the
ricd1atne 10 the reformers, considering that
1t vas the supporter, of Gen., Nichols in
1884 for Governor, that after his defeat it
biolteed and Gen. Nichols was never heard of
in the canvass; that in the congressional
election following in the first district, Gen.
Nici,ol!s followed the lead of the Picopunr.
acted upon its teachings, openly bolted his
party l ard actively and aggressively opposed
ard finally, considering that the Picd2nn,t is
now the organ of the Nichols campaign and
is so announced by the. reformers, We
submit, that it is question which Gen.
Nichols should be called upon to answer
before the Democracy OF Louisiana: xviii
you openly and actively support Gov. Nc
Emery if he is nominated for Governor by
the State convention 2. The question is not,
as it was put to Gen. Nichols the other day:
Twill you. be an independents candidate if
you are defeated in the convention" Gen.
Nichols is man of honor, soldier and a
gentleman, and, of course, would not be a
candidate if, having gone before the conven-
ton, he should be defeated. The real ques.
ton is, as we put it above: Will you support
actively, your successful opponent?
And there is another question we submit
that the chief supporters Of Gen. Nichols
and Gen. Nichols himself should be, COLI
sdering their relations with the Picdsrtne,
required to answer by the Democracy of this
State: Gentlenen-Gov. Nichols Messls.
White, Miller, Zacharie. Don Gallery and,
last but not least, our old friend Hollings-
PicaD,t,le on boiling the nominees of Demo-
cratic conventions, and the course Of Gen.
Nichols in following and acting on those
views in the Hunt bolt of 1884, and in his
silence relative to them in the preceding